Learning from... Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 April 2009
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
articles
To hold the whole spread of the distance
Keamogetse Mosienyane on Arthur Erickson’s postcards as photographic annotations
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photographs
PH1978:0021:001-030
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Album of 30 photographs of historical maps, prints and photographs showing views of Montreal : buildings, houses, maps (Carte historique de l'Ile de Montréal/Historial map of the Island of Montreal, Iroquois territories), churches (Notre-Dame, Notre-Dame de Victoire, Cote Street Free Church), towers, streets (St. James, St. Amable), Leber's Mill, Seminary of Montreal, stone building (La Friponne), demographical lists : 'Liste de l'Augmentation de la population de Montréal de 1673 à 1687' and 'Liste des Habitants de Montréal de 1650 à 1672', and other general views of Montreal (Montreal Canada East). Original works in the McCord Museum: .002 : (after Robert Auchmuty Sproule) Place d'Armes, Montreal .007 : (by John Murray) Great St. James Street, Montreal, 1843-44 .012 : (by John Murray) North East View, Notre Dame Street, Montreal .015 : (by John Murray) South West view, Notre Dame Street, Montreal, 1843-44
architecture, topographic
ca. 1930
Album of photographs of maps, prints and photographs of Montreal, Québec
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PH1978:0021:001-030
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Album of 30 photographs of historical maps, prints and photographs showing views of Montreal : buildings, houses, maps (Carte historique de l'Ile de Montréal/Historial map of the Island of Montreal, Iroquois territories), churches (Notre-Dame, Notre-Dame de Victoire, Cote Street Free Church), towers, streets (St. James, St. Amable), Leber's Mill, Seminary of Montreal, stone building (La Friponne), demographical lists : 'Liste de l'Augmentation de la population de Montréal de 1673 à 1687' and 'Liste des Habitants de Montréal de 1650 à 1672', and other general views of Montreal (Montreal Canada East). Original works in the McCord Museum: .002 : (after Robert Auchmuty Sproule) Place d'Armes, Montreal .007 : (by John Murray) Great St. James Street, Montreal, 1843-44 .012 : (by John Murray) North East View, Notre Dame Street, Montreal .015 : (by John Murray) South West view, Notre Dame Street, Montreal, 1843-44
photographs
ca. 1930
architecture, topographic
articles
Tracing the Marine Drive, Accra
by Łukasz Stanek compares colonial and postcolonial masterplans
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Correspondance personnelle
AP001.S1.SS02
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Cette sous-série contient la correspondance personnelle et professionnelle d'Ernest Cormier entre 1909 à 1978, incluant des lettres de voyage, des cartes souhaits et des cartes postales.
non daté, 1909-1978
Correspondance personnelle
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AP001.S1.SS02
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Cette sous-série contient la correspondance personnelle et professionnelle d'Ernest Cormier entre 1909 à 1978, incluant des lettres de voyage, des cartes souhaits et des cartes postales.
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non daté, 1909-1978
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AP001.S2.SS04
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Cette sous-série contient une série de cartes postales collectées par Ernest Cormier entre la fin des années 1900 et le début des années 1940. La collection consiste essentiellement de cartes postales d'architecture, incluant des photographies de la maquette de l'Université de Montréal, ainsi que des albums de séries de cartes postales intitulés "Album Artistico de Burgos" et "Venezia, 12 cartoline artistiche".
non daté, [1908-1943]
Collection de cartes postales
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AP001.S2.SS04
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Cette sous-série contient une série de cartes postales collectées par Ernest Cormier entre la fin des années 1900 et le début des années 1940. La collection consiste essentiellement de cartes postales d'architecture, incluant des photographies de la maquette de l'Université de Montréal, ainsi que des albums de séries de cartes postales intitulés "Album Artistico de Burgos" et "Venezia, 12 cartoline artistiche".
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non daté, [1908-1943]
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
Hall cases
7 May 1989 to 15 August 1989
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal
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Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
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Project
Fresh Air Cart
CP138.S5.D4
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File consists of a plan for the cart used in the 1972 project Fresh Air Cart, executed in New York City, New York. File contains a drawing.
[1972]
Fresh Air Cart
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CP138.S5.D4
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File consists of a plan for the cart used in the 1972 project Fresh Air Cart, executed in New York City, New York. File contains a drawing.
File 4
[1972]
photographs
ARCH259792
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Cartes postales à sujets variés.
[entre 1908 et 1918]
Collection de cartes postales Lot 149/A-2
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ARCH259792
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Cartes postales à sujets variés.
photographs
[entre 1908 et 1918]
research
Bechtel-CCA Collection Research Grants Jasmine Benyamin (Princeton University); Jennifer Carter (McGill University); Diana Cheng (McGill University); Juliana Maxim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Joaquim Moreno (Princeton University); Michael Osman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Tijana Vujosevic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).;
January 2005 to August 2005
Doctoral Students Program 2005
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Bechtel-CCA Collection Research Grants Jasmine Benyamin (Princeton University); Jennifer Carter (McGill University); Diana Cheng (McGill University); Juliana Maxim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Joaquim Moreno (Princeton University); Michael Osman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Tijana Vujosevic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).;
research
January 2005 to
August 2005